Rearing Medium
Definition
The food source placed in the rearing container to support larval development. Raw beef liver is the standard; it provides protein, moisture, and nutrients comparable to decomposing tissue.
Related terms
- Development Table
- A species-specific reference dataset giving the accumulated temperature (degree hours or degree days above a threshold) required to complete each life-stage transition....
- Eclosion
- The emergence of the adult fly from the puparium. In rearing, the date of eclosion is recorded as the end point of...
- Isomorphen Diagram
- A contour plot of the same axes where each contour connects all (temperature, age) combinations that produce the same morphological developmental stage...
- Minimum Base Temperature
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- Pupariation
- The process by which the third-instar larva contracts and hardens its own cuticle to form the puparial case (puparium) that encloses the...
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- Rearing Immature Insects to the Adult StageThe food source placed in the rearing container to support larval development. Raw beef liver is the standard; it provides protein, moisture, and nutrients com...